Fifteen volunteer board members and over 800 intensely interested citizens of
the area embarked upon their first major project.

This unique book of history, published December, 1995, includes
detailed authenticated facts combined with the personal family stories from the
era of the Oklahoma Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893 to the present.
Supported by documented materials, photographs, and personal interviews with the
people who were alive during that time, it serves as the most complete history ever
complied. A comprehensive
Index is online.
Who knows, perhaps you are part of this rich history.

This National Award winning two volume masterpiece has been
distributed to many universities and libraries coast to coast.

Many people wanted to claim the lands in the unsurveyed
areas of the Cherokee Strip. There was no law governing the settlement of
these lands until the United States congress issued the "Homestead Laws".
Read them for yourself in this reprint of the original passed out to the
contestants before the land run of 1893.
No student of history, especially Oklahoma history, should be without
their personel copy of this great moment in the building of our
country. Learn more about the "Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893" and the
historical events surrounding them

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